Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “β”

DIOURITCH,THE EXPANSION OF GERMAN BANKS ABROAD

GeorgesDiouritch,The Expansion of German BanksAbroad, Its Connections with Germany’s EconomicDevelopment, Paris (and Berlin), 1909 (798 pp.).

A gigantic volume with heaps of data; part is already in Riesser; I select some additional data:

p. 37: According to figures ofDer Deutsche Oekonomist(1906, p. 452), German banks have a capital of11,394million (their own and borrowed money).

p. 84... French capital invested abroad:

pp. 126-27: “Big German bank connections with industrial companies through participation in their supervisory boards” (table compiled by Hans Arends and Kurt Wossner from data in theDirectory of Company Directors andMembers of Supervisory Boards, Berlin, 1903): the author gives figures by industries; I take only the totals:

p.213. Participation of the chief countries in maritime telegraph cables of the world:

p. 239... Electrical firms abroad (fromFasolt, The Seven Big Electrical Companies, Their Development...Dresden, 1904); I take only figures onRussiaand totals (million marks):

pp. 245 and 246. Oil output in Rumaniain 1886 . . . . . . . . . . .  53,000 tons”  1907 . . . . . . . . . . . 900,000  ”

Foreign capital in this industry[1]:

p. 283 et seq.

((a mass of purely monographic data on eachbigbank and on some German overseas banks))

[1]See present edition, Vol. 22, p. 249.—Ed.

[2]Ibid., p. 245.—Ed.